School hearings, Feb. 5-7, 2013

Posted: February 20, 2013 - 12:05am

• A Columbia County Alternative School student went before the school system hearing officer Feb. 5 for accumulation of offenses and violation of probation, and was expelled for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year with the option to return to the alternative school for the first semester of the 2013-14 school year.

• A Columbia Middle School student went before the hearing officer Feb. 5 for accumulation of offenses and received long-term suspension with the option of attending the alternative school for the remainder of the school year.

• Two Greenbrier High School students went before the hearing officer Feb. 5 for possession and distribution of marijuana and were given long-term suspension with the option to attend the alternative school for the remainder of the school year.

• A Grovetown Middle School student went before the hearing officer Feb. 7 for bullying, and was expelled with the option to attend the alternative school for the remainder of the year and the first semester of the 2013-14 school year.

• Three Grovetown Middle School students went before the hearing officer Feb. 7 for possession of pepper spray or being party to possession, and received out of school suspension and 15 days of in-school suspension.

• A Harlem Middle School student went before the hearing officer Feb. 7 for sexual harassment and received long-term suspension with the option to attend the alternative school for the remainder of the year and the first semester of the 2013-14 school year.

• A Grovetown High School student went before the school hearing officer for theft and violation of probation Feb. 7 and was expelled for the remainder of the school year and the first semester of the 2013-14 school year. A second student received the same punishment for being a party to that theft.